In Awakening and Fates, the Dread Fighter acts as a reward for players for buying downloadable content, and is accessed through use of the Dread Scroll item; the Awakening version is male-exclusive, while the Fates incarnation of the class is not restricted by the gender of the unit. In the former game, the Dread Fighter is part of the Lost Bloodlines 2 DLC package, while in the latter, it is the Hoshido-aligned link-up reward for owning both of the game's campaigns, with its Nohr counterpart being the Dark Falcon. Although their stats are similar to their original Gaiden incarnation, Dread Fighters in these games gain weapons they couldn't previously use in addition to their original swords: axes and tomes in Awakening, and axes and daggers in Fates. In Awakening, this class was a male-only class, but became a unisex class in Fates.

Trivia

In Awakening, all Dread Fighters are constantly surrounded by a red miasma, with the exception of legacy bonus units (like Alm himself); these units instead have the blue miasma standard to all bonus units. All Dread Fighters in Fates are also surrounded by a blue miasma.

Etymology and other languages

• Popularized by Serenes Forest.• Used in the Gaidenfan translation, owing to the limited space available for class names.

Japanese

魔戦士

Officially romanized as Masensi in the Fates class roll,[2] this being a literal romanization with no attempt to translate meaning into English. The term can be translated many ways, including "demon warrior", "mage warrior", and "evil warrior". In Gaiden itself, the name is the same but is spelled in hiragana as ませんし, rather than in kanji as in later games.

Spanish

• Mago guerrero• Ajusticiador

• Mage warrior. This name is used in Awakening.• Executor. This name is used in Fates.

French

• Héros mage• Terreur

• Mage hero. This name is used in Awakening.• Terror. This name is used in Fates.

German

Dunkelkrieger

Dark warrior

Italian

Cuortempesta

Possibly a compound of the Italian cuore, "heart", and tempesta, "storm".